Bruxelles, 30-31 janvier 2003 Mesdames et Messieurs, C'est peut-être la première fois que des citoyens d'Europe et du monde entier rencontrent des scientifiques et des spécialistes afin de discuter...
Brussels, 03 Feb 2003 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has welcomed a decision by the US to rejoin the international thermonuclear experimental reactor project (ITER). Mr Busquin told CORDIS...
Paris, 03 Feb 2003 The European Space Agency shares in the grief that struck NASA and the whole space community today. The loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts is a devastating...
Paris, 03 Feb 2003 At about 14:00 GMT (15:00 Central European Time), Saturday 1 February 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia was lost and seven NASA astronauts perished. They were Rick Husband, Mission...
Brussels, 03 Feb 2003 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has paid tribute to the seven astronauts killed in the Columbia space shuttle accident and emphasised how much scientific progress owes...
Brussels, 2 February 2003 After the dramatic accident of the space shuttle Columbia, Philippe Busquin, Commissioner responsible for Research, offered his sympathy to the families of the astronauts...
Brussels, 03 Feb 2003 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has launched a joint pilot study to measure urban air pollution in Milan in January and February 2003. The initiative, in...
Brussels, 03 Feb 2003 CORDIS, the European Commission's Research and Development Information Service, is providing future applicants to the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) with a new o-line form to...
Brussels, 03 Feb 2003 A workshop on advanced manufacturing technologies for the automotive industry is taking place on 13 and 14 May in London, Canada. In today's knowledge-based economy, innovation...
Transmanche University accord signed Education secretary Charles Clarke signed an accord for a cross-channel university project to link academics in southern England and northern France today at a...
Feepayers' bankruptcy loophole to be closed A loophole in the bankruptcy laws is to be closed to prevent students avoiding the payment of university top-up fees, ministers said yesterday. Charles...
Brussels, 31 Jan 2003 The European Group on Life Sciences (EGLS) is seeing changes since it began advising the Commission, Professor Derek Burke, a member of the group has told CORDIS News. The '...
Paris, 31 Jan 2003 Today, about 90 percent of the hardware for Jules Verne, Europe's first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) spaceship that is to fly towards the International Space Station (ISS) in...
Paris, 31 Jan 2003 Artemis has finally reached geostationary orbit, some 36,000 km above the Earth, at 21.5°E. This announcement would, if all had gone to plan, been made just a few days after lift-...
Brussels, 31 January 2003 The challenge we are now facing is to make sure that present and future discoveries will be accessible to those who need them most, particularly the poor. It is our...